GW_Diesel:Most likely a fark or reddit reader that got fired up and thought he'd take on the corporate 'man' on his lunch hour.. oh well, user your Obama Hope to find a job in this crappy economy loser!

I live with my mom. That troll wasn't even phoned in. Are you using a telegraph or smoke signals?

Day_Old_Dutchie:If you work in a convenience store selling tobacco products, and since tobacco is a highly addictive product that kills it's users when used as intended, then if you should feel bad for being part if you are a moral individual.

Yeah, nothing but a dick move. I wont spend my money at Chick-fil-A, because I'm not willing to hand my money directly to Focus on the Family. But other than that, I wish them all the luck in the world. I will disagree with, and personally vote counter to, the position they hold. But overall they seem like a decent company, and treat their employees fairly well. And I'm pretty sure they're not Hitler. I'm not sure why anyone thinks this particular issue needed to go anywhere beyond 'Not with my money'. It seems like a symptom of the oppositional vilification that makes up most of American politics now.

Tatterdemalian:Typical liberals, they think there should be consequences for speaking freely for everyone else except themselves.

Just like how they expect everyone else to suffer under "green" regulations so there's enough carbon credits left over for them to drive SUVs, and how they think other people should feel privileged to sacrifice their money so they can spend it on nice things for themselves.

are you even trying?

Seriously...

Are you?

ugh...

this isn't trolling, it's just being a dick wart...

Stop it... no one thinks you're cute, funny, or clever... Just annoying...

Studson:Day_Old_Dutchie: If you work in a convenience store selling tobacco products, and since tobacco is a highly addictive product that kills it's users when used as intended, then if you should feel bad for being part if you are a moral individual.

LowbrowDeluxe:Yeah, nothing but a dick move. I wont spend my money at Chick-fil-A, because I'm not willing to hand my money directly to Focus on the Family. But other than that, I wish them all the luck in the world. I will disagree with, and personally vote counter to, the position they hold. But overall they seem like a decent company, and treat their employees fairly well. And I'm pretty sure they're not Hitler. I'm not sure why anyone thinks this particular issue needed to go anywhere beyond 'Not with my money'. It seems like a symptom of the oppositional vilification that makes up most of American politics now.

Two words: Armchair Activism

That's the only reason it has created such an uproar. It enables people to feel like they are doing something proactive, while not having to do anything other than be vociferous on social media outlets.

Pocket Ninja:I'm having a really hard time understanding any thought process by which he imagined himself not looking like a complete asshole in this video.

I'm pretty sure that he was banking on getting some sort of an argumentative response the first time he said "anti-gay" or "hate group" or whatever his opening line was.

He probably laid awake all night thinking up witty and thought provoking responses, with just a touch of thinly veiled disgust, to every aggressive response that the chicken jockey could feasibly dish out. In every one of these fantasy scenarios, his final cutting retort would simultaneously devastate and educate every homophobe within a three block radius in a pyroclastic flood of superheated righteousness and smug. Of course, his sense of purpose would shield him from the wave like a Kevlar cloak. He assumed that uploading the video would make him some kind of folk hero and everyone would fight over which town would get to hold his parade.

When the poor little girl was nice to him, his entire plan fell apart. Then the retard put it on Youtube anyway because he'd gone to all the trouble, and besides, what's the worst that could come out of it?

On the one side, you've got idealistic morons shouting that everyone who works for Chick-Fil-A is guilty by association of what the central office's politics are, never stopping to realize that Chick-Fil-A is a franchise company and that almost all of the stores are run by independent operators who may or may not share those politics. These same morons are also claiming that an entire corporation is anti-gay when, in fact, there is no evidence to suggest that even a majority of the corporation's workers feel that way. It's a parts of the whole fallacy.

On the other side, you've got idealistic morons shouting that by boycotting Chick-Fil-A because you don't agree with their politics, you're somehow trying to censor or suppress Dan Cathy's first amendment rights and, by extension, persecuting Christians. Which is, of course, a straw man argument chased with a slippery slope argument.

Neither side actually has a position - they both are just latching on to a controversy and pinning their pre-existing point of view to it. And those on the extremes are also using the situation to get media attention or, like this asshat, to be douchebags so they can get clicks on Youtube.

Why doesn't everybody just shut up and either continue eating at Chick-Fil-A, or don't? It's not like there's a lack of choices available to those who disagree with the company's executive politics. It's also not like Chick-Fil-A sold out its values and is suddenly any different than it was a few weeks ago.

Day_Old_Dutchie:If you work in a convenience store selling tobacco products, and since tobacco is a highly addictive product that kills it's users when used as intended, then if you should feel bad for being part if you are a moral individual.

Same goes for attending Catholic church and supporting them by putting money in the plate, even though you think their top dog is an evil individual for shielding pedos and messing with the politics of third world countries.

My father quit an aerospace company because they were building parts for nuclear weapons. Good pay, but he hated having the check his morals at the door every workday.

This is what I was driving at.

One if the several reasons I'm leaving my current employer is because I violently disagree with software patents.

Mugato:How many major companies have a lot shadier business practices than donating money to anti-gay marriage groups, anywhere from sweatshops in China and India, using bribery in order to continue unsafe working conditions, corporate espionage and theft, selling products that can kill people who eat drink or smoke them, etc, etc. ect. Hint: almost all of them. And you want the kid working a drive thru to make a statement by not working there? Get the fark out of here with that noise.

I want everyone to make a statement, and everyone to realise what sort of unethical crap they support directly or indirectly.

Failing that I'll just do it myself. Yes, I'll be the one in the corner surrounded by a cloud of smug. Smug and cigar smoke anyhow.

VulpesVulpes:Hey, can you point out the "Typical Liberals" in this thread who think there shouldn't be consequences? thx.

Oh, and include "think they should be able to set arbitrary restrictions, like insisting that quotes from yesterday's thread shouldn't count because this is a completely different thread, while everyone else's words should be saved in perpetuity and quote-mined forever" on that list of hypocritical things liberals do.

gimmegimme:Jesus Christ. Welcome to America, in which there is no difference between you at work and you at home. While I do NOT like what this guy did at all, I take great exception to the idea that we are representatives of Dear Company at all times.

That's less true for corporate officers, who are essentially the human aspect of the fictitious corporate person. Sort of how Paul Reubens getting busted for spanking it in an adult theatre killed Pee-Wee Herman's career.

Is this guy a douchebag for berating a drive-through window cashier for the actions of her company's CEO? Yes.

Should this guy have been fired for taping his douchebaggery, and posting it on the internet? YES. This guy was a CEO. What he did shows bad judgement, and poor cognitive skills. He's unfit to be CEO of my garden shed.

penthesilea:If the guy was marching outside the place with a sign or participating in a sit-in I'd be mad he was fired. This is not the case. This was purely dickish behavior.

I wouldn't want someone that stupid to be in charge of a company. Guy doesn't make good decisions.

That right there.You're a CEO, and you feel EMPOWERED by yelling at teenagers in a drive-thru.

Either1) like penthesilea said- making bad decisions... not so good2) you're likely to be a horrible boss if you think yelling at low-level employees is the answer for disagreeing with a position taken by management3) you're a CEO; you haven't made enough high level decisions to make you feel 'empowered' enough at your job, so you take out your frustrations on the kid that tries to serve you your lunch. Wtf?4) you think that taking a stand for something means abusive behavior toward another human being5) you think it's a good idea to record yourself ranting at a nearly random person and post it online

CEO material? Not in my company. Not in theirs, either.

Do you think that years of ass-kissing and cubical hell made him feel like he really WAS, in his mind, taking a stand?

qualtrough:The guy's a douche bag, big time, but I wonder how many of you would be cutting the employee some slack if the restaurant she worked for refused to serve blacks. Still OK to work there then?

It was probably easier for her to maintain professionalism at this stage than when the CFA controversy first broke. He probably thought he was being clever and original, when the reality is that he was probably the ninth guy that week to try that same stunt, only he filmed it. Probably old hat to the employees at this point.

CheekyMonkey:Is this guy a douchebag for berating a drive-through window cashier for the actions of her company's CEO? Yes.

Should this guy have been fired for taping his douchebaggery, and posting it on the internet? YES. This guy was a CEO. What he did shows bad judgement, and poor cognitive skills. He's unfit to be CEO of my garden shed.

Agreed, but should Farkers put aside their ideological differences and through solidarity unify to lambast this asshattery? No. There are clear divisions and they have been set through precedent here on Fark. The correct response is to find some, albeit minute, way to support this man.

I am disappointed in this reasoned discourse and I find it blatantly unsettling.

qualtrough:The guy's a douche bag, big time, but I wonder how many of you would be cutting the employee some slack if the restaurant she worked for refused to serve blacks. Still OK to work there then?

Could you run that logic through the strainer a little bit more. There's still some lumps in it.